Once over money and territory, violence in the country has taken a more destructive turn.

'Éamon de Valera,' by Ronan Fanning

Catholic social thought has much to say about the issues surrounding the Rising.

Cutting a cross into Irish soda bread dough before placing it in the oven serves both a scientific purpose and a spiritual one.

In the very useful Penguin Book of Irish Fiction 2000 editor Colm T ib n ultimately selected but one short story from the prolific Benedict Kiely an unenviable task to say the least T ib n chose Homes on the Mountain a modest-seeming tale about a 12-year-old boy and his extended family tw

During an interview several years ago Edna O'Brien told me a story about an appearance of hers in the 1960's on an Irish television program during which the host said to the studio audience: "Hands up all of you who think Edna O'Brien has shamed her country."